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78 THE WONDERFUL CITY OF TOKIO.
"Will you please tell me what this means? My brothers
and I have been arguing about it."
"
I know," interrupted Fitz.
"
That young girl has parted
just
with her admirer, who has gone off in one of those
fune (junks), and she is waving good-by to him. I told
Sallie so, and she will not believe me."
MURA-SAKI-SHIKIBU, A JAPANESE POETESS.
rf You are wrong, this time," said Oto.
r The lady was a
celebrated poetess, named Mura-saki-shikibu. She lived a
long while ago, and wrote the story of the Genji."
*
Why does she leave her lamp burning when it is day-
in an unconvinced tone. "She is not writ-
light?" said Fitz,
ing, anyhow."
" She shut herself up in a pavilion and completed the
poem in a few days," answered Oto.
"
Being much absorbed
in her occupation, she was not conscious that her lamp was